Comments about ‘Utes football recruiting: Polynesian players prosper at Utah’

An "off" year in 1982, in which BYU finish 8-4 and unranked, was
highlighted by a close 14-17 road loss to Hershel Walker's #4/#4
Georgia(11-1) team.

BYU started 1983 with a close 36-40 loss at
Baylor(7-4-1), before reeling off 11 straight wins, including road wins over
#13/#15 Air Force(10-2) and #17/#13 UCLA(7-4-1), and a Holiday Bowl over
Missouri in which Steve Young CAUGHT the winning TD. BYU finished the season
11-1 ranked #7/#7, setting up BYU's 1984 National Championship season.

What case are you closing? Is it the case that BYU was found
to be worthy and utah was found to be lacking by pretty much the exact same
groups of people? In that case I agree with you. Thanks for your honesty.

Doubtful it will change any of the
biased opinions on the hill, but maybe they'll gain a smidgen of
understanding of how a WAC team with a mediocre schedule could earn enough
respect from all five national selecting organizations to be selected the
Consensus 1984 National Champion.

I seem to recall BYU's starting QB Riley Nelson suffering
a cracked spine against Weber St in the 2nd game of the season, but that
couldn't possibly have affected the outcome of BYU's close road losses
at Utah(by 3), at #16 Boise State(by 1), at #3 Notre Dame(by 3), or at #21 San
Jose St(by 6), now could it?

y fans are delusional and its an embarrassment to an organization saying head to
head doesnt matter, If your team is not capeable of beating another team. Utah
has domininated this series for the last decade. Utah would be 10-0 if not for 3
meraculous plays at the end in those losses.

Please. UTAH had more than a handful of key-starters out early in the season,
including both of our starting safeties, JWIV, etc.

Our game last
year was hardly a close game in its truest sense....Up 24-7 in the 4th quarter
before a series of unforced mental-errors on our part, enabling 1 byu TD
[Punt-Team] and extending their drive in order to produce the freak-show at its
conclusion [w/our two FR ALL-America safties sitting the game out, byu rec is
vacuously allowed behind them, which our starters would never have allowed to
happen]....It was only justice that the DOINK ended the game.

I still
chuckle over Star forcing the high-snap, which ML turned into a TD, merely by
lining-up over center and causing the byu center to panic out of fear and botch
it....Now that's a perfect illustration of a forced-error.

I still question why some BYU fans on this board appear so obsessed with the
opinions of Utah fans.

So far Snack Pac is the only one who has
answered the question. Really, BYU fans who continue to comment on here, I
would like to know why you are so concerned with the opinions of Utah fans, and
the goings on of the Utah sports programs.

At 7:27 in the 3rd Q,
BYU had the ball at Utah's 25 and was driving to tie or take the lead when
an errant snap led to Mo Lee's scoop and score. Six minutes later, an
18-yard punt return and 39-yard scoring bomb gave Utah a brief 7-24 lead.

2:14 later, BYU completed a 75-yard drive to cut Utah's lead to
14-24.

After a couple of possession exchanges, BYU drove to
Utah's 39, before punting to pin the Utes at their own 11. After stuffing
the Utes on 4th down, BYU took possession at Utah's 20 and quickly scored
to cut Utah's lead to 21-24 with 3:39 left in the game.

After
forcing another punt, BYU took possession at their own 8 with 1:11 left. BYU
drove to the Utah 19, where BYU's 36-yard FG attempt bounced off the left
upright allowing the Utes to escape with a narrow 3-point win.

"If strength of schedule had mattered as much in 1984, BYU would not have
been voted the national champions." -Sports Illustrated

"By
today's standards, there's no question we wouldn't have been
number 1. There would have been four teams higher than us in the polls."-ROBBIE BOSCOE

BYU was barely squeaking past teams on the third
worst schedule in the country. They are the only team to be voted #1 without
ever beating a single good team, and they played the worst bowl opponent a
"champ" has ever faced. It was a joke.

This is why byu
"fans" will always feel a need to come onto Ute threads and defend their
SHAMpionship.